cactus 7k daily OP.

[negative3five 10+ year member]

thier made in brazil the new SD 5K is a great amp with a 5 year warrenty thiers not to many reviews out yet but wait you'll see I've heard nothing but great reviews on everything else

 

[TnT_Sounds 10+ year member]

I haven't had the chance to use all 4 of them due to the fact that's almost 20k and my setup is for daily. That's why I don't want to run them. I want either 2 7k amps or I'll see what I can do to have quad alts and 6 more batteries.

My setup is about as efficient as it gets for a 6th order bandpass in a blow-through. Last setup was playing music at 154 I believe.

 

[RAB 10+ year member]

a bro also look into rd d13 amps

 

[TnT_Sounds 10+ year member]

thier made in brazil the new SD 5K is a great amp with a 5 year warrenty thiers not to many reviews out yet but wait you'll see I've heard nothing but great reviews on everything else

I'm really looking into them. I think I've talked Murilos ear off. I just want to be sure they are good for musical.

 

[dB-r 10+ year member]

^^Hey chris, Steve told me that you are now the new repair center for Stetsom.

How's that going so far?

Yes that is correct. Got a few amps here so far, from individuals, supposed to have a bunch more and some parts coming from the other shop they used to use but the stuff hasn't gotten here yet.

So far Stephen is a great guy to deal with. If you want to know anything about Stetsom I recommend you call or email him. He's an expert, as I think he is the first guy to run the stuff here in the US years back.

I haven't worked on enough of them (Stetsom amps) yet to really form a "formal" opinion of them, but I do know that most of the people who are running them are happy with them and they are putting out some serious gobs of power. I think people are breaking them by pushing them FAR beyond their rated limits, like people do with EVERY amp on the market... run the voltage too high, disable the protect circuits, you know that kind of shit. Tearing the amps up. Some are blowing subs and blowing the outputs in the amp but that happens to any amp when you blow a sub (unless your just lucky and it doesn't hurt the outputs). I have my concerns about their size vs. heat dissipation just like everyone here seems to have, but they assure me these things will run "AT RATED" power within the rated specs for voltage and all that for a long time with no overheating. The only way to really test that is to have a big daily setup not a comp setup and see how they do, I am working on such a setup in my Caprice, where I could just throw a 10K in there and beat on it at half-2/3rds power rating for a while to see if they get hot or not. Problem is, over in Brazil, the cars are so tiny, so there is no way they can make the amps bigger... Good thing is this is the US and our cars are big, well, some of them, not as many as used to be. If I think the US models need a bigger heatsink believe me they will hear that from me. If some of the circuitry is problematic, or any physical problems with the build quality etc, they get all that input from me. It's why companies like Stetsom come here, because they get good feedback from me and I am brutaly honest, if something is junk I tell them it's junk. We have been working with Sundown for 2 years (over that actually) now and Jacob has implemented many of my recommendations in his amps, particularly the larger ones and has drastically cut down his return rate (percent of returns) on those amps because of it. I no longer see vibration damage in the newer most up to date SAZ-3000D models for example. We don't get many of them in here to refurbish anymore, if we do get a few, it's been from a bad output mosfet or something like that, not a catastrophic failure, just a random part failure.

 

[TnT_Sounds 10+ year member]

a bro also look into rd d13 amps

RD is to wish washy. Prices fluctuate more than the stock market

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

a bro also look into rd d13 amps

there is a little wait still as there are minor adjustments being made to make it a very stable amp. if he needs it right away it wont be an option, I suggest that he makes a more effective box, I people putting up sick numbers with half or even a quarter that power, all because there box is super efficient.

 

[Revolution 10+ year member]

I was leaning towards some D9s but once I heard competitor pricing is 1050 plus shipping. No thanks //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif
I could get a 5k at 12v for less than that.

we have two levels of competitor cost. It really depends on your past experience in the competition world. If you want you can call and speak with me if you have some time and see what can be done.

 

[dave_damage 10+ year member]

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Good to hear this. I love it... Thanks for being honest. You know, the guy who owns IA and the guy who owns Sundown are freinds, matter of fact I think they deal with each other on a daily basis in this business.

Do you know who makes the Soundstream 15k board? I dont think its Zenon based.

 

[Revolution 10+ year member]

RD is to wish washy. Prices fluctuate more than the stock market

shouldnt have that problem any more in about 2 weeks. Everything is getting restructured. There will be map, regular price, team rd cost, team revolution cost.

hopefully that will help alot. Also the d9 is not a basic 5k amp it does 5k but also sounds very good, palys daily at very low ohm loads, works up to 20v, and is very stable. We have sold approx 220 of them since last nov and only got two back and one was installer error. Even compared to our 5750 it is hands down the better amplifier.

 

[TnT_Sounds 10+ year member]

there is a little wait still as there are minor adjustments being made to make it a very stable amp. if he needs it right away it wont be an option, I suggest that he makes a more effective box, I people putting up sick numbers with half or even a quarter that power, all because there box is super efficient.

Numbers aint shit to me Matt. Unless its at or below 30hz. I play music and that's it. Besides there's not enough shit that goes on around here to build a burp box.

 

[TnT_Sounds 10+ year member]

shouldnt have that problem any more in about 2 weeks. Everything is getting restructured. There will be map, regular price, team rd cost, team revolution cost.
hopefully that will help alot. Also the d9 is not a basic 5k amp it does 5k but also sounds very good, palys daily at very low ohm loads, works up to 20v, and is very stable. We have sold approx 220 of them since last nov and only got two back and one was installer error. Even compared to our 5750 it is hands down the better amplifier.

I will only ever get a D9 if the price ever goes back to 750 for Team whatever.

 

[Savag3 10+ year member]

dood my d9's are so nice , so strong ! .5ohm daily crushin' !

 

[TnT_Sounds 10+ year member]

My 40.1s can do that too

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[RAB 10+ year member]

^^^^^^^ yeah but it doesnt sound as good as the d9 does